Freelance Web Design: Important Questions to Ask Potential Clients
by Libby Fisher -
Today, we are going to talk about a few of the specific questions to ask potential web design clients. These questions will help you to form a solid idea of what exactly the client is looking for, which will help you to draw up an accurate proposal for the project. If you already asked the big questions that we talked about in the article “Freelance Web Design: The Initial Meeting With Potential Clients”, then you should already have a general idea of: the goal of this website, the target audience, the time frame, and the budget.…
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by Ray Cassidy –
Adobe Flash is a truly amazing innovation, even after more than a decade Adobe Flash is a software platform for multimedia content. It was originally created by Jonathan Gay as a project known as Future Splash Animator. When Disney Studios and MSN got interested in using it for their websites, this pricked the awareness of Macromedia who were already developing their Director software. Macromedia bought out Jonathan Gay’s parent company and the software was re-badged under the title of Macromedia Flash 1.0.
Currently, it is under the wing of Adobe Systems. Ever since its introduction,…
by Elaine Mingus –
What does a professional web designer charge? You have a new business and you want a website or you are an established business that wants a redesign. Either way you want someone you can trust, someone who knows what they are doing and who won’t charge you an arm and a leg to improve or create your internet presence.
The scale that a professional freelance web developer uses can vary greatly. Some freelance designers charge per hour, some charge per project.
Most web designers have two rates, one for clients they manage directly and one…
by Chris Godby –
1. Have you got the design skills? Design is subjective, but you need to have a great eye for detail if you want to become a freelance web designer. You will also need to know how to code html and css. There are few freelance web designers who can’t code html. You can learn code, but you can’t really learn design: my first designs were god-awful and I bet the majority of web designers will agree, getting good at design is something that takes time and experience. Enter design contests, join forums and get your…
by K Martel -
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but everyone knows that they do so on the Internet. Having your own website is a great money-making advantage. Add to that great WEB DESIGN – and then you’ll have an unfailing success formula. So in order to grow and harvest money faster from your website, read through this “gardener’s” tips:
Prune and trim away
Just as you do in an overgrown garden, snip away every unnecessary branches, i.e. keep your site neat and clutter-free. You would not want navigators to your homepage to get tangled in heavy overgrowth. Remember, good…
by Uzo Onukwugha –
Color is the most neglected subject in sales and marketing. Non-designing marketers abandoned the subject of colors to their webmasters or graphic designers. However, the subject of colour is the business of all of us. Your understanding the principles of colour will make your marketing promotions outstanding. This is how fortunes are made.
The study of color in design is as complex as the variety of colors in existence. I must start by simplifying a complex subject by going back to the basics–the primary colors. Scientists and artists differ in their definition and application of…
Do you remember long ago, in the days of yore, when Web sites were two-dimensional pages of text, maybe with an image or two sprinkled across the pages for flavor? No more is it so; designers are getting more and more creative as they invent new ways to experience the Web. Images move, navigation jiggles, and many sites are acquiring a three-dimensional quality.
Here we’ve compiled some of the wackiest sites out there – pages that make full use of all available tools to create a truly fun experience. From shopping to cheeseburgers to product promotions, surfing the Web has…
by Mona Pennypacker, Acorn Creative Studio -
Chances are that free tools will come up during your time programming or designing a web page, and unlike in the past, when people might not have championed the free revolution, these days plenty of people are making their code available and fostering development and change on a speedier level than witnessed before. Whether it happens to be start-ups figuring out how to make things happen thanks to particular open-source programs that do everything from map locations to design web infrastructure or it’s simply knowing how to Google well, finding the freebies…
by Ruth Williams –
More and more, people are accessing the internet on their iPhones, Blackberries and Androids. And now, even regular cell phones are coming with wi-fi and internet functionality. The web has truly gone handheld…but is your website keeping up? No matter how great your web design is, if it doesn’t display properly on mobile devices then you could be losing valuable traffic and customers. Read on to discover best practices in web design for mobile devices.
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Some mobiles, like the iPhone, are very good at translating web pages into a smaller size without losing layout…
by Saad Muhammad Khan —
Website design is the look of the website which tells us many things about the purpose of the website. Previously, website designs were only done to give websites a style but now with the advancement of web technology, innovation is taking place by adding fancy tabs and different links. Since there are new inventions and innovations of languages coming in every day, designing has adapted a whole new role of improvising web content with proper looks.
2010 was a rather fast year for web development where we saw the mobile taking over the PC…
